Ben Lerner Quotes

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• I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Body

• Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Me
  • Stage

• There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Goodness
  • Which

• I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Kind
  • Enjoy
  • Suits

• But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Country
  • Enough
  • Corruption

• I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Talk
  • Careful
  • Qualified

• Lovers walk in the noontime by that fountain.Pigeons dip their beaks to drink from the water.And soon the pond must freeze.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Water

• Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Insurance

• 'There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die' is a motto of the Mahatmas.

  

  Helena Blavatsky
  • Live
  • Die

• Do we want to be successful, or do we just want to make noise just to make it? Or just to put something on the record? I'll be honest with you, I'm tired of putting stuff on the record. I'm ready to see some real transformation and change.

  

  Bernice King
  • Real
  • Tired
  • Transformation

• The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • People
  • True
  • Light

• Ever since we started, we've been trying to give people music that is pop music where you could just get into the melody and get into the performance of the band and be quite satisfied.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Simple
  • Couple

• You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema
  • Military

• I got rid of Twitter, and I got rid of Facebook.

  

  Pete Davidson

• The whip's office is almost more educational - educating members on the bill itself, listening to members ahead of time.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Time
  • Listening

• I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • Work

• Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Life
  • Great

• There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Black

• Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that, in future national emergencies, He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Security
  • Deserve

• We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Age
  • Fool

• All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Different
  • Character
  • Comedy

• They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Men
  • Together
  • Guy

• You are the first and last indigenous Nintendo.

  

  Ben Lerner